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Monday the Rabbi Brought Soup
Rabbi Shmuel Marcus, Chabad emissary to Los Alamitos, California is driving very, very carefully. In the back seat of his car is a box with…
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Pre-War Chabad Yeshiva Building in Poland Long Thought Gone, Is Found
A rookie researcher from S. Paulo, Brazil made it her goal to locate the former glorious building of the Lubavitch Yeshivah school, known as Tomchei…
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After Firebomb Ukraine Synagogue Sees Growth
Since the fire-bomb attack, the community decided to conduct more of its events than is usual, on its premises, raising awareness of and pride in…
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Shofar In The Park
Chabad rabbis, students and volunteers, will be canvassing army bases, senior centers, hospitals and even prisons, and sounding the shofar blasts for any Jew who…
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A Train Crash, A Missing Spouse, A Day in the Life of Two Chabad Rabbis
A woman from the Houston was area injured in the Metro-North train crash in the Bronx. Her husband was trying to locate her. Could Chabad…
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Interview: On The Art of the Halakhic Process With Rabbi Chaim Rapoport
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A Community of Jewish Teens Grows On Boston’s North Shore
15-year-old Sasha Matusevich grew up on Boston’s North Shore. In many ways, the public school sophomore is your typical American teenager whose love for dancing…
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Blog: A Sukkah Party In the Woods of Maine
A year ago, Yehudah Dukes of the Jewish Learning Network, paired me up with Robert. I lived in Australia and Robert, in the woods of…
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Pollinating New Holiday Growth
In Israel, honey jars fly off store shelves during the High Holiday season, when Jews pray for and wish each other a New Year filled…
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Israel’s Two Wheel Yom Kippur Dilemma
The origin of biking on Yom Kippur in Israel is murky, but it is ironically tied to the widespread reverence that Israelis—even secular ones—have for…
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Israel: Secular Kibbutz Members Welcome Torah Study, Prayer
In Kibbutz Beit Alfa’s Children’s House, director Anat Lev is busy planning High Holiday activities with the local Chabad rabbi
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Rabbi Isaac Luria, Mystic for the Ages
Known as The Ari (The Lion), a Hebrew acronym for “the G-dly Rabbi Isaac,” Rabbi Luria's thought and teachings have become the cornerstone of the…
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In Conversation: New Chabad Representatives To Mumbai
As a rabbinical student, I spent time in Mumbai helping the Holtzbergs. Gabi was a dear friend, and I knew Mumbai and the community. But…
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Beating Dyslexia: Michael Zarchin’s Story
In 1960, when Michael Zarchin was six years old, he had yet to learn to speak normally. He could not read, write, or understand basic…
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Dutch Government Acknowledges Failure To Protect Jews
On Wednesday April 28, members of the Dutch government apologized to Holland's Jewish community at the site of the former Westerbork concentration
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Reaching For Heaven: An Observant Jew Navigates the Skies
In the cockpit of an Air France Airbus 330, about an hour after takeoff, on a flight from Paris to Senegal...
Lag B’Omer: Of Mystics and Merriment
More than a million people visit annually, but it is during the 24-hour period of Lag B’Omer that the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai…
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The Hidden Jews of Solano County
(lubavitch.com) It’s an 820 square mile swath in Northern California with a population of about 500,000. Until recently, anyone living there who happened to be…
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The Greenbergs 17: A Leader in Every Time Zone
(lubavitch.com) Some call it “fate,” but the Greenbergs prefer “mission.” The children of Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Greenberg—there are seventeen in all—are dispersed around the…
Transition in Lubavitch: January 28, 1950
Today, the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, marks the sixtieth Yahrtzeit of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn of Lubavitch.
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Holocaust Survivors Find Social Support With Ivolunteer
Under Manhattan’s dazzling lights, Holocaust survivors met Tuesday at the Cooper Square Hotel’s magnificent penthouse, where they were joined by donors and volunteers in celebration…
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Major Jewish Philanthropist Explores Chabad’s Russian Roots
Guma Aguiar is making up for lost time. Last week, the young billionaire sprinted through blizzard conditions in Russia and Ukraine, tracing the early history…
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Allegheny vs. ACLU: Good for Chanukah
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that placing Chabad-owned menorahs in public spaces did not violate the establishment clause, it set a slab of precedent…
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Scion of Chabad Musical Family Passes Away
Rabbi Shamshon Charitonow, an expert on Chasidic melodies and a survivor of Soviet oppression, passed away last Thursday, Nov 26, in Brooklyn. He was 91…
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